Three easy steps to create a synthetic web transaction monitor

I have been fielding a lot of question lately from my customer on the ability for dynaTrace to do synthetic monitoring from an up-time perspective and also a full transaction response time perspective. Some companies are throwing out their million dollar synthetic monitors to use the dynaTrace's free Web Transaction Monitor plug-in

To ping a page to see if it is up you can simply use the URL Monitor. The URL monitor allows you to ping a page and even alert on error codes.

To create a web synthetic transaction monitor use the "Web Transaction Monitor" free plug-in with these three very easy steps:

Go to the page you want to record(I use staples.com here) and go through your transaction work flow.

Create a monitor with the appropriate work flow name and cut and past the XML output from Canoo Webtest Recorder to the script edit link...
With the XML you can add log in/password information, add properties, and also add the dynaTrace header so you can see the transaction in the "Tagged Web Requests" dashlet/drill down. Click Here for more examples.

Once your new synthetics are created you can then schedule them to run as a task, store the results for reporting, and alert on a slow or failing transactions.

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I am trying to setup a web transaction monitor at the client. I have a few questions you may be able to help me with. First, are you required to use FireFox (the firefox plugin?. Next, are you required to install the CAnoo build on the collector running the web transaction monitor? Could i just write a script without installing the Canoo build, just by going off examples???

to answer your questions
a) you do not need the firefox plugin
b) you do not need to install canoo to get this working
c) if you have easytravel installed check out the pre-configured web transaction monitors in that system profile

Andi

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